Friday, September 28, 2007

From Solemn to Hilarious

Just got back from a meeting.

Chair-person (lady) was pretty serious. New on the job, oozing with enthusiasm and eager to make a good impression. But half-way through the solemn affair, someone saw a nice blind-spot in her field of vision and decided to toss in a banana peel.

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Chair-person: This item has been on this minutes for the last two weeks. Why can't we proceed with the sample build?

Project guy: We're still short of some raw materials. The parts are coming in soon… within these two days.

OK. I come clean. There was a real meeting, but it was borrrriiiinnnng. My invovlement was more like spectator status. So I started "taking notes". The 'can we have a date?' statement was plucked from history, and the story developed from there. I tagged it as 'fiction'.

I was the one who made the original gaffe many years ago at a similar meeting. The guy who responded didn't catch it until I myself started laughing and when he realized it, he grinned and said, "I'm not that type".....hahaha...I'm just thinking; the US president makes so many of them, everyone thinks it's natural for him.